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Congress Can’t Require Members To Show Up Or Quit

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The South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt left the United States Senate when he retired in 1973, but he really left when he had a stroke in 1969. A long effort to secure his resignation failed. He just stopped showing up, leaving a state with half its representation in the upper chamber. A member of Congress who wins a seat holds the seat, and gets the paycheck, until he loses an election or decides to give it up. He doesn’t have to come to work to have the job.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican and former Senate majority leader, had a serious medical emergency three weeks ago that left him in the hospital. With his office declining........

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